History Quotes

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

News is the first rough draft of history.

The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.